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Jump at de Sun Jump at de Sun

Anthropologist, novelist, folklorist, essayist and luminary of the Harlem Renaissance, Zora Neale Hurston dazzled her peers and patrons almost immediately upon her arrival in N...

Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Kristal Brent Zook

Death at an Early Age Death at an Early Age

In October 1968, at the height of the Ocean Hill-Brownsville crisis, New York Mayor John Lindsay got heckled off the stage at a synagogue in Brooklyn.

Jan 30, 2003 / Books & the Arts / Michael E. Staub

Ten Papers We Like Ten Papers We Like

Orbis
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, TN
School population: 10,855

Jan 30, 2003 / Feature / The Nation

Peace as a Civil Right Peace as a Civil Right

The life of Dr.

Jan 23, 2003 / Dennis Kucinich

The ‘Quota’ Smokescreen The ‘Quota’ Smokescreen

George W.

Jan 23, 2003 / Lani Guinier

A Win at Cracker Barrel A Win at Cracker Barrel

A lonely Cracker Barrel restaurant stands alongside the highway that runs near my house.

Jan 23, 2003 / M.V. Lee Badgett

Cries of ‘Reverse Racism’ Ring Hollow Cries of ‘Reverse Racism’ Ring Hollow

Affirmative action, so long distorted by its critics, makes an easy political target.

Jan 22, 2003 / Column / Robert Scheer

Roe in Rough Waters Roe in Rough Waters

Thirty years later, abortion's political terrain is more complicated than ever.

Jan 22, 2003 / Feature / Jennifer Baumgardner

War’s Collateral Damage War’s Collateral Damage

Among Washington insiders the odds of war with Iraq rise and fall daily--60-40, 50-50, 40-60.

Jan 16, 2003 / The Editors

Who Killed Emmett Till? Who Killed Emmett Till?

The summer before 14-year-old Trent Lott entered all-white Pascagoula High School in Mississippi, a 14-year-old black boy from Chicago named Emmett Till convinced his mother to let...

Jan 16, 2003 / Books & the Arts / David Holmberg and Rebecca Segall

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